So, from this, what I can gather you mean by "empathy", is that people who don't do what you and yours want are suspicious and immoral people.I don't know if I have empathy for them or not. They knowingly participated in a system that was, according to those with a grievance, not transparently conducted to their satisfaction. They could have quit in protest. They could have refused to participate. But they were okay with the procedures and operations that others complained about.
That's not empathy, that's authoritarianism.